Wireless sensor networks, by providing an unprecedented way of interacting with the physical environment, have become a hot topic for research over the last few years. As with any new technology, results from real exp...
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(纸本)0769524664
Wireless sensor networks, by providing an unprecedented way of interacting with the physical environment, have become a hot topic for research over the last few years. As with any new technology, results from real experimentations using these networks are still scarce, as real deployments are either costly, or still unfeasible in the current state of technology. There is therefore an increasing need for simulation tools allowing the testing of different architectures, communication protocols or information processing algorithms in sensor networks. In this paper, we investigate a simulation framework for the testing of data processing in wireless sensor network applications. In a first stage, data is generated using partial differential equations, allowing the modeling of a large panel of physical phenomena. In a second stage, sensing unit operating system and network constraints are simulated using an instance of a versatile simulator to account for the platform characteristics. Insights provided by the proposed simulation frame are illustrated by a set of experiments on a heat source detection task.
The fusion of data from different sensorial sources is nowadays an often-used method to increase robustness and reliability of automatic environmental perception. The project Profusion2, which is a horizontal subproje...
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Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance program that recommends maintenance decisions based on the information collected through condition monitoring. It consists of three main steps: data acquisition, data...
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Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance program that recommends maintenance decisions based on the information collected through condition monitoring. It consists of three main steps: data acquisition, data processing and maintenance decision-making. Diagnostics and prognostics are two important aspects of a CBM program. Research in the CBM area grows rapidly. Hundreds of papers in this area, including theory and practical applications, appear every year in academic journals, conference proceedings and technical reports. This paper attempts to summarise and review the recent research and developments in diagnostics and prognostics of mechanical systems implementing CBM with emphasis on models, algorithms and technologies for data processing and maintenance decision-making. Realising the increasing trend of using multiple sensors in condition monitoring, the authors also discuss different techniques for multiple sensor data fusion. The paper concludes with a brief discussion on current practices and possible future trends of CBM. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A plethora of image fusion algorithms have been proposed recently, yet what are optimal fusion parameters that should be used for any multi-sensor dataset cannot be defined a priori. They could be learned by evaluatin...
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(纸本)9781424409532
A plethora of image fusion algorithms have been proposed recently, yet what are optimal fusion parameters that should be used for any multi-sensor dataset cannot be defined a priori. They could be learned by evaluating all available fusion strategies on large, representative datasets, but this is not practical and provides no guarantee that fusion performance will remain optimal should real input conditions differ from sample data. This paper proposes and examines the viability of a powerful framework for objectively optimal image fusion that explicitly optimises fusion performance for any set of input conditions. The idea is to integrate proven concepts used in objective image fusion evaluation metrics to optimally adapt the fusion process to the input conditions. Specific focus is on fusion for display, which has a broad appeal in a wide range of fusionapplications as only metrics shown to be subjectively relevant are considered The results show that the proposed framework achieves a considerable improvement in both the level and robustness of fusion performance for a wide array of multi-sensor images.
Interest in the distribution of processing in unattended ground sensing (UGS) networks has resulted in new technologies and system designs targeted at reduction of communication bandwidth and resource consumption thro...
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(纸本)0819462985
Interest in the distribution of processing in unattended ground sensing (UGS) networks has resulted in new technologies and system designs targeted at reduction of communication bandwidth and resource consumption through managed sensor interactions. A successful management algorithm should not only address the conservation of resources, but also attempt to optimize the information gained through each sensor interaction so as to not significantly deteriorate target tracking performance. This paper investigates the effects of Distributed Cluster Management (DCM) on tracking performance when operating in a deployed UGS cluster. Originally designed to reduce communications bandwidth and allow for sensor field scalability, the DCM has also been shown to simplify the target tracking problem through reduction of redundant information. It is this redundant information that in some circumstances results in secondary false tracks due to multiple intersections and increased uncertainty during track initiation periods. A combination of field test data playback and Monte Carlo simulations are used to analyze and compare the performance of a distributed UGS cluster to that of an unmanaged centralized cluster.
in this paper, a novel image fusion method based on the finite ridgelet transform(FRIT). Firstly, the problem that wavelet transform could not efficiently represent the singularity of linear/curve in image processing ...
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(纸本)0819462985
in this paper, a novel image fusion method based on the finite ridgelet transform(FRIT). Firstly, the problem that wavelet transform could not efficiently represent the singularity of linear/curve in image processing is analyzed. Secondly, the principal of FRIT and its good performance in expressing the singularity of two or higher dimensional are studied. Finally, the feasibility of image fusion using FRIT is discussed in detail. A new fusion method based on FRIT and the fusion framework are proposed. The transform coefficients structure and the fusion procedure are given in detail in this paper. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm works better in preserving the edge and texture information than the wavelet transform method and the Laplacian pyramid methods do in image fusion.
In this paper, we introduce a new image fusion method based on the contourlet transform. Firstly, the problem that wavelet transform could not efficiently represent the singularity of linear/curve in image processing ...
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(纸本)0819462985
In this paper, we introduce a new image fusion method based on the contourlet transform. Firstly, the problem that wavelet transform could not efficiently represent the singularity of linear/curve in image processing is analyzed. Secondly, the principal of Contourlet and its good performance in expressing the singularity of two or higher dimensional are studied. Finally, the feasibility of image fusion using contourlet transform is discussed in detail. A new fusion method based on Contourlet transform and the fusion framework are proposed. The transform coefficients structure and the fusion procedure are given in detail in this paper. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm works better in preserving the edge and texture information than the wavelet transform method and the Laplacian pyramid methods do in image fusion.
Positioning, as one of the prime components of Context, has been a driving factor in the development of ubiquitous computing applications throughout the past two decades. Based on the Redundant Positioning architectur...
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Change detection is an important task in remotely monitoring and diagnosing equipment and other processes. Specifically, early detection of differences that indicate abnormal conditions has the promise to provide cons...
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(纸本)0819462985
Change detection is an important task in remotely monitoring and diagnosing equipment and other processes. Specifically, early detection of differences that indicate abnormal conditions has the promise to provide considerable savings in averting secondary damage and preventing system outage. Of course, accurate early detection has to be balanced against the successful rejection of false positive alarms. In noisy environments, such as aircraft engine monitoring, this proves to be a difficult undertaking for any one algorithm. In this paper, we investigate the performance improvement that can be gained by aggregating the information from a set of diverse change detection algorithms. Specifically, we examine a set of change detectors that utilize a variety of different techniques such as neural nets, random forests, and support vector machines. The different techniques have different detection sensitivities and different false positive rates. For fusion, we consider the Dempster regression technique that operates well for time series as well as averaging schemes, and a meta-classifiers. We provide results using illustrative examples from aircraft engine monitoring.
Active fusion is a process that purposively selects the most informative information from multiple sources as well as combines these information for achieving a reliable result efficiently. This paper presents a gener...
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